Re: mixed worship in Umathela

From: Jeff Kyer <jeff.kyer_at_...>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 05:12:34 -0000

> Jeff paraphrasing Greg from memory.
>
> >You are allowed to use one magic system. If you wish to switch to
> >another system, you loose _everything_ you had in the previous one
and
> >start over from scratch.
> >
> >If you use one system such as Sorcery, then one cannot use theistic
or
> >animistic *worship* elements (I don't know about a sorcerer trying
to
> >use fetishes, for example but intergration is certainly not an
option)
>
> I don't think this is totally true for we are told that on p166 of
> HW:RiG that there are "theists who practice ecstatic worship, in
> addition to sacrifice", on p167 of same "sacrifice is occasionally
> found among animistic or sorcerous cultures, though its use in
> those settings is usually viewed as evil or wrong" and so on.
> Certainly any magic learned from this might be much more difficult.
>
> --Peter Metcalfe

If it was a single individual, I think it would be called misapplied worship. You're trying to do something that you know works from another magical system but you do not use it.

Also, did that thing say that these people AS INDIVIDUALS practiced both. Bob here is our liturgist. I'm the guy who talks to Lord of Snow.

You're allowed to use one set of the magic rules. Not two... You know that Orlanth like cows and beer and really *bad* poetry. But you're a sorcerer, you're not sure. Do we feed the cows the beer and then recite the poetry when we're finished blessing the cattle?

Its better to just say 'one set of rules' until they get illuminated or something unusual like that. I am, to be honest, not interested in how many Arkati can dance on the head of a pin but in how the game works and can be played enjoyably but fairly, particularly by folks new to Glorantha.

Jeff